Cooking Fist
Cooking Fist is a cooking-fighting game with NO health bars. You’ll have to cook up the best dishes to claim victory. Fight with a diverse roster of chefs, each with their own fighting and culinary styles. Challenge your friends locally or online with Rollback netcode!
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Let Them Cook!
Cooking Fist is a unique, Cooking Fighting Game with NO health bars! Victory is decided by which player can cook the best food during each fight. Players fight over ingredients. When a player has 3 ingredients:
They must pause fighting to cook. Whoever cooks the most wins!
Authentic Cuisine with a Twist!
Cooking Fist plays like a traditional 2D fighter. Characters possess robust movesets, each with special moves performed using motion inputs. However, the alternative win condition of cooking recontextualizes the fighting game formula for new players and veterans alike! Cooking forces players at all levels to reconsider spacing and resources while preserving the DNA of what makes fighting games great!
Meet The Chefs
The game features a cast of 8 characters, ranging from classic fighting game archetypes to characters specialized in the game's unique cooking system.
Hailing from the countryside, Terrance moved to the big city to prove that anyone can cook! Terrance is a versatile fighter with a little bit of everything, including a pear projectile and a baguette uppercut. Being prone to improvisation, Terrance will still receive points for burning his food while other fighters do not.
Driven equally by his love of Sicilian cuisine and by his rage at lazy chefs, Giuesspee overwhelms rivals with his offense. Giuesspee utilizes powerful mixups in the form of his trident dash and sausage roll specials. When in close, Giuespee can grab and spin his opponents like pizzas to steal their ingredients!
Plus More to Come!
Check back soon for more updates on the remaining chefs coming to Cooking Fist!
Features
Single-player arcade mode
8 quirky hand-drawn characters with unique playstyles
Local Versus play against other players or AI
Casual online lobby system
Ranked online matchmaking system
Training Mode with robust settings like frame data and dummy controls
